Watch a Bloody New Dance Video from Tremor Low

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If any of the images from "Give Blood," the new video from Oakland trio Tremor Low, seem familiar, then consider yourself a fan of evocative, violent cinema. Or maybe just someone with particularly troubling nightmares.

The Pulp Fiction- and Timecrimes-referencing cut, directed by David Dutton, sets the band's darkly romantic synth-wave to a slow-motion run for their lives.

"The song and video are about people exploring the woods, encountering something a little menacing, and being transformed by it," the band's Donald Bellenger tells us. "A pivotal moment happens early on when the group encounters bodies on the ground, and one character realizes that the bodies are actually their own."

"It's a message of how the group needs to make sacrifices in order to find their new identity," he says. "Identity is an idea that resonates throughout the song, and in our own way, we're asking the questions of 'Who are we really?' and 'What if we could change that?'"

The looping, time-manipulating style plays into the video's heady pontificating. "We felt that it was important that while the characters are giving into their baser, paranoid instincts, they're always being manipulated by versions of themselves," Bellenger says.

"Did the suited people come before the masked ones? Who becomes who? We leave that to the viewer to decide," he explains.

Another important question to consider: When was the last time you wanted to dance to psychology? And how much fun is it to watch indie-rock dudes get murdered in the woods?

Speaking of which, Bellenger says, "I tasted lots of fake blood and didn't like it. In one particular shot, we threw a bloody knife and then couldn't find it, so there's still a very incriminating knife covered in blood out there on this person's property."